In addition to the newspaper advertisement, CISTUS fan cafe visited the Taehwa Welfare Center for senior citizens for volunteer work and donated Happy Beans to a children’s foundation under Hyoyeon’s name. (Editor’s note: Happy Beans are a charity item within Naver. People who make lots of blog/cafe posts, comments, and email replies are given Happy Beans. They are worth a few hundred won, and can be donated to various charities and foundations.)

They also held a heartwarming event delivering daily necessities and money donated by Girls’ Generation fans to people in need.

Fans on Twitter also celebrated Hyoyeon’s birthday as “#24thHyoppyBirthday” and “Kim Hyoyeon” trended in first and seventh place worldwide.

this is the BEST newpaper ad dedicated for Hyo-unnie’s birthday EVER!
Thank you sooooooooo much SONEs~
i almost cried when i see this ad and the twitter trending list!
it was trending first worldwide!
and that beautiful poem really does picture our Kim Hyoyeon perfectly~
and the charity makes things much better~
this proves how much SONEs love Hyo-unnie and they’re willing to do anything for her~
i feel really sad and dissapointed that i can’t do anything to show my love and appreciation towards Hyosookie-unnie except wishing her Happy Birthday… :(
again THANK YOU very much to SONEs and especially KSONEs for this lovely ad~ <3

see that trending list! that is why my
response to hyo’s birthday article was
so tardy! i was pushing the spam limit
on twitter! HAHA! anyway…i really like
the focus of the article…charity…the
effect of hyo’s movement on our emotions…
and her smile! hyo, you have no idea
what that smile can do for a sad person
on a bad day! :-)